Re: Remain Calm: Designated initializer patches for 2.5
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 00:32:43 -0300
Em Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:22:23PM +1000, Rusty Russell escreveu:
> Hi all,
>
> I just sent about 40 reasonable-size patches through the
> Trivial Patch Monkey to Linus: these patches replace the (deprecated)
> "foo: " designated initializers with the ISO-C ".foo =" initializers.
> GCC has understood both since forever, but the kernel took a wrong
> bet, and we're better off setting a good example for 2.6 before we
> start getting about 10,000 warnings.
>
> So far, Art Haas has done all the fs code, and will presumably
> be working through the other code on dir at a time.
>
> Just a heads-up,
Did this ones touched the net/{ipv4,ipv6,appletalk} dirs? I'm working on
general cleanups in those and this is one of the things I'm doing, again
just a heads up.
- Arnaldo
PS.: deliver_to_old_ones_users-- will happen for Appletalk 8)
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